The following terms and conditions govern all use of the short.nu website and all content, services and products available through the website, including, but not limited to, the client area (collectively referred to as the Site).

The Site is owned and operated by short.nu. The Site is offered subject to your acceptance without modification of all of the terms and conditions contained herein and all other operating rules, policies (including, without limitation, short.nu Privacy Policy) and procedures that may be published from time to time on this Site by short.nu (collectively, the "Agreement").

Please read this Agreement carefully before accessing or using the Site. By accessing or using any part of the web site, you agree to become bound by the terms and conditions of this agreement. If you do not agree to all the terms and conditions of this agreement, then you may not access the Site or use any services. If these terms and conditions are considered an offer by short.nu, acceptance is expressly limited to these terms.

Description of services

Our Site provides publishers with the ability to shorten urls and earn income by showing users advertising on their way to their destination url or framed at their destination page. Advertisers may utilize our Site to promote products or services on the advertising pages provided by the publishers or any third party company. You understand and agree that the Site may include advertisements on these shortened url which is a requirement of the site to operate. You also understand and agree that the service may include communications from our Site, such as website announcements, rate change notifications and other notices. You may opt out of these announcements by unchecking the notifications checkbox in your account management page. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, any new features made to the Site shall be subject to these terms of service.

Client area account

You are responsible for maintaining the security of your client area account, and you are fully responsible for all activities that occur under the account and any other actions taken in connection with the account. You must immediately notify short.nu of any unauthorized uses of your account or any other breaches of security. short.nu will not be liable for any acts or omissions by you, including any damages of any kind incurred as a result of such acts or omissions.

Contribution to website

If you leave comments anywhere on the Site, post material to the Site, post links on the Site, or otherwise make (or allow any third party to make) material available by means of the Site (any such material, "Content"), You are entirely responsible for the content of, and any harm resulting from, that Content. That is the case regardless of whether the Content in question constitutes text, graphics, audio, or computer software. By making Content available, you represent and warrant that:

Downloading, copying and use of the Content will not infringe the proprietary rights, including but not limited to the copyright, patent, trademark or trade secret rights, of any third party

You have fully complied with any third-party licenses relating to the Content, and have done all things necessary to successfully pass through to end users any required terms

The Content does not contain or install any viruses, worms, malware, trojan horses or other harmful or destructive content

The Content is not spam, is not machine or randomly generated, and does not contain unethical or unwanted commercial content designed to drive traffic to third party sites or boost the search engine rankings of third party sites, or to further unlawful acts (such as phishing) or mislead recipients as to the source of the material (such as spoofing)

The Content is not libelous or defamatory, does not contain threats or incite violence towards individuals or entities, and does not violate the privacy or publicity rights of any third party

By submitting Content to short.nu for inclusion on our Site, you grant short.nu a world-wide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, modify, adapt and publish the Content for the purpose of displaying, distributing, promoting, marketing or any other lawful use.

Without limiting any of those representations or warranties, short.nu has the right (though not the obligation) to, in short.nu discretion (i) refuse or remove any content that, in short.nureasonable opinion, violates any policy or is in any way harmful or objectionable, or (ii) terminate or deny access to and use of the Site to any individual or entity for any reason, in short.nu sole discretion. short.nu will have no obligation to provide a refund of any amounts previously paid under these circumstances.

Publisher Restrictions

short.nu publishers may not have invalid or fraudulent clicks, including but not limited to clicks generated by:

Do not place short.nu short URLs on any form of traffic exchange / PTC / faucets / autosurf website / click ring.

Generating impressions using bots, proxies, auto-refreshes or other surreptitious methods.

Obtaining impressions by paying directly or indirectly other people for link visits.

Serving intermission ads in popups.

Do not send users to our short URLs unwillingly outside of the Auto Overlay Script.

Disabling the Site's anti-frame system to display your links in an iframe.

Hacking other websites illegally to display or your links.

Embedding your links in malware or programs without user consent.

Distributing illegal content or child pornography.

Unwelcome spamming of other sites without permission using your links.

Do not spoof referrers, send blank referrers, or falsify referrers. All traffic sources must be verifiable through referrers.

Adult traffic and/or content.

Incorrectly categorizing your link content as adult .

short.nu reserves the right to automatically put your account on a limited functionality status if your account performance is very poor. Limited account status means the user can no longer generate revenue or withdrawal earnings from the site. Poor performance is usually the result of fraudulent clicks.

Advertiser Restrictions

short.nu advertisers may not do any of the following activities in the section below.

Any kind of notification prompt that appears without any kind of user interaction. User interaction is defined as a mouse click on the ad or page. Popup windows are allowed as long as a user clicked the page.

Javascript that interferes with our ad serving system or hangs the client browser.

Frame breaker scripts or automatic redirects that takes a user away from the Site.

Promoting your own Site link. This violates the framebreaker rules.

Distributing any kind of illegal content or child pornography. Illegal content includes software piracy as well.

Distributing any kind of virus or malware software.

Malicious attacks only other people or organizations. (Racism, Slander, etc)

Tricking users into believing the advertisement is part of the Site.

Cookie stuffing other affiliate offers or pages.

short.nu reserves the right to deny any advertising campaign found to be in violation of the restrictions above. Denied campaigns can be resubmitted for approval at any time. Repeated offenses may result in the suspension of the advertiser's account and a refund of any unspent funds.

Advertiser deposits and refunds

The Site offers online advertising services for sale. The Site does not handle payments for these products directly, but rather refers these payments to a secure third-party payment processor which handles all aspects of the payment process. Any payment issues or disputes should be addressed to short.nu via the use of our help desk. Once we have been notified by the payment processor that a payment has been made, and that the payment has successfully passed an automatic fraud review, funds will become immediately available in your account. Refunds are accepted upon request for any unspent campaign funds that you may have in your account or in an existing campaign for a period of 90 days. short.nureserves the right to refuse campaign refunds for funds that have already been spent over the course of an advertising campaign.

Publisher payments

Payments are made from short.nu through PayPal when the publisher has reached a minimum payout of $5.00 USD. Payments are processed automatically unless the publisher is flagged for review in which payments can take up to 7-14 days. Being flagged for review are the result of a variety of anti-fraud measures which may or may not indicate bad faith on the publisher. Larger publishers can apply at the support desk to be white listed from the anti-fraud measures if various criteria are met.

Responsibility of website visitors

By operating the Site, short.nu does not represent or imply that it endorses any or all of the contributed content, or that it believes such material to be accurate, useful or non-harmful. You are responsible for taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your computer systems from viruses, worms, trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive content. The Site may contain content that is offensive, indecent, or otherwise objectionable, as well as content containing technical inaccuracies, typographical mistakes, and other errors. short.nu disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from the use by visitors of the Site.

Intellectual property

This Agreement does not transfer from short.nu to you any short.nu or third party intellectual property, and all right, title and interest in and to such property will remain (as between the parties) solely with short.nu. short.nu logo, and all other trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with short.nu, or the Site are trademarks or registered trademarks of short.nu or short.nu licensors. Other trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with the Site may be the trademarks of other third parties. Your use of the Site grants you no right or license to reproduce or otherwise use any short.nu or third-party trademarks.

Changes

short.nu reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to modify or replace any part of this Agreement. It is your responsibility to check this Agreement periodically for changes. Your continued use of or access to the Site following the posting of any changes to this Agreement constitutes acceptance of those changes. short.nu may also, in the future, offer new services and/or features through the Site (including, the release of new tools and resources). Such new features and/or services shall be subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.

Termination

short.nu may terminate your access to all or any part of the Site at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately. If you wish to terminate this Agreement you may simply discontinue using the Site. All provisions of this Agreement which by their nature should survive termination shall survive termination, including, without limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity and limitations of liability.

Disclaimer of warranties

The Site is provided "as is". short.nu and its suppliers and licensors hereby disclaim all warranties of any kind, express or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. Neither short.nu nor its suppliers and licensors, makes any warranty that the Site will be error free or that access thereto will be continuous or uninterrupted. You understand that it is your responsibility to ensure that the privacy policy you create is complete, accurate, and meets your companies specific privacy needs. We are not liable or responsible for any privacy policies created using our services, and we give no representations or warranties, express or implied, that the privacy policies created using our service are complete, accurate or free from errors or omissions.

Limitation of liability

In no event will short.nu, or its suppliers or licensors, be liable with respect to any subject matter of this agreement under any contract, negligence, strict liability or other legal or equitable theory for: (i) any special, incidental or consequential damages; (ii) the cost of procurement or substitute products or services; (iii) for interruption of use or loss or corruption of data; or (iv) for any amounts that exceed the fees paid by you to short.nu under this agreement. short.nu shall have no liability for any failure or delay due to matters beyond their reasonable control. The foregoing shall not apply to the extent prohibited by applicable law. short.nu shall not be liable for any special or consequential damages that result from the use of, or the inability to use, the services and products offered on this site, or the performance of the services and products.

General representation and warranty

You represent and warrant that (i) your use of the Site will be in strict accordance with the short.nu Privacy Policy, with this Agreement and with all applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation any local laws or regulations in your country, state, city, or other governmental area, regarding online conduct and acceptable content, and including all applicable laws regarding the transmission of technical data exported from the United States or the country in which you reside) and (ii) your use of the Site will not infringe or misappropriate the intellectual property rights of any third party.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless short.nu, its contractors, and its licensors, and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents from and against any and all claims and expenses, including attorneys' fees, arising out of your use of the Site, including but not limited to your violation of this Agreement.

Miscellaneous

This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement between short.nu and you concerning the subject matter hereof, and they may only be modified by a written amendment signed by an authorized executive of short.nu, or by the posting by short.nu of a revised version. Except to the extent applicable law, if any, provides otherwise, this Agreement, any access to or use of the Site will be governed by the laws of the state of California, United States, excluding its conflict of law provisions, and the proper venue for any disputes arising out of or relating to any of the same will be the state and federal courts located in California, United States. If any part of this Agreement is held invalid or unenforceable, that part will be construed to reflect the parties' original intent, and the remaining portions will remain in full force and effect. A waiver by either party of any term or condition of this Agreement or any breach thereof, in any one instance, will not waive such term or condition or any subsequent breach thereof. You may assign your rights under this Agreement to any party that consents to, and agrees to be bound by, its terms and conditions; short.nu may assign its rights under this Agreement without condition. This Agreement will be binding upon and will inure to the benefit of the parties, their successors and permitted assigns.

Changes to our terms and privacy policies

From time to time we may make adjustments to this policy. Changes will be made at our sole discretion. Site's users are encouraged to check this policy for such changes. Your continued use of this site following changes to this policy constitutes your acceptance of the changes.

Contacting us

If you have any questions about the Terms of Use, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, please contact us at: